Throw Away Society

[MR.hp]

It is very sad, that so much stuff is tossed out that could be repaired and used again. My neighbor came over the other day and asked if I wanted his old Weed whacker, I asked what's wrong with it and he tells me it does not run. I took it, then I drained the old gas (no oil might I add) put in some new fuel mixed with oil then tried to start it. The little thing ran for about 1 min. then would not restart, I thought, this can't be that hard to fix. I soon realized that the primmer would not work so no fuel to the carb. I found the fuel lines were all broken off in the tank so out I went to the Hardware store. I get the line put it in place (some work I might add) then try to start the little thing. At first no fuel then I realized the line was not facing the bottom of the tank, repositioned the line primed it 3 times and BANG, fired right up. I tweaked the carb and this thing runs like a charm.

I asked him if he wanted it back, he said no as he bought a new one. The repairs cost me a total of $1.47 and a little time to fix the weed whip. I guess I am just the type to try and fix something before I really toss it out, makes me sad that everyone throws so much good stuff out and piles up in our landfills. We are a throw away society, very sad indeed.

[Z28SSMAN]

Yeah, my weed whacker was spilling fuel out of the rubber junction lines that run into the tank. I took the model # and stopped at Kliers on Lyndale since they were an "authorized Toro dealer". He said they no longer carried parts for it and recommended an Echo for $199 which had a 5 year warranty. I found a company on line that had the tank, lines and the in-tank filter for $20. Still didn't run. Took the carb apart and found a tiny black piece of plastic which was blocking the fuel hole. Got it to pressurize and it runs fine. Didn't fix it for as cheaply as yours but I didn't want to toss it.

[smooth_358]

all I ever end up buying is old junk and end up fixing it.

hope is not lost.

[MR.hp]

Just this week some dude gave me anold XP computer that no one could fix where he brought it to be fixed, he gave it to me for free, I worked on it today found it was stuck on the xp logo screen. I hooked it up the hard drive to my remote drive unit, plugged it into my other computer cleaned out the bad stuff but it was still doing the same thing. All the stuff I read on the net could not fix it. I went back and found CREATOR, thought I could make a disc but nope. Next I found the same thing in my old XP computer made a disc, popped it in and let the magic happen. In just 3 hours I have a nice fresh computer that works as new. Another save from the scrap pile.

[Bluetcster]

It does sound like you can fix stuff for sure there HP.